Bristol Street Art

One of my favourite activities on my travels is discovering street art. Street art seems to be gaining a lot of popularity as is evidenced by the street art/murals popping up across cities all over the world. Some cities are just discovering street art having considered them graffiti and vandalism for a long time, while some have cities have gained international attention for their street art. In Europe, London is popular for its street art as are Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Bergen, Sarajevo and Moscow among others. Poland has some really nice street art and murals in Warsaw and Gdansk. Kraków's street art scene is also developing. Closer home, Bristol has a very prominent street art scene. Banksy's works are popular but there are many large and colourful murals from other talented artists as well.

During our recent visit to Bristol, we set out to explore the street art scene in the city and as expected it did not disappoint. So many beautiful pieces of work, some in traditional style while some more modern in their approach, some raising awareness about social and political issues while some simply, pieces of beautiful art. I liked it all. My favourite was artist Jody Thomas' work on the wall of The Florist featured at the beginning of this article.

Below are some of the other pieces that we saw in Bristol.

Mother & Child - a beautiful piece by Los Angeles artist El Mac.

Mythological robotic creature by Italian muralist Pixel Pancho.

Vandal by Nick Walker (left)

A huge industrial mural by Mariusz Waras.

The Duel of Bristol by Conor Harrington (left) and Art by Aryz and Stik (right).

Banksy’s Hanging Man.

Jimi Hendrix at The Bridge Inn.

An Asterix Obelix inspired mash-up by Tom Deams.

The pangolin by Louis Masai.

Some other interesting pieces.